AMERICA'S SHIP EXPERTS QUARREL.
DELAYING NEW CONSTRUCTION. fUistrali an-New Zealand Cable Association. Ificceievd Julv 19, 12.20 p.m. WASHINGTON. Julv 18. Tlio carrying out of America's shipping prograrnnio is delayed owing.to a controversy between Colonel Goethals, head <>t the Emerge)icy Fleet- Corporation, and Mr Dcnrrian, chav'rman of the. Shipping Boai;d. Goethals do&ires to return the commaindcored BritisH ships to Britain, but. Donman favours holding them permanently. They are also finable to agree oft the question of purchasing or leasing lands whereon to construct the shipyards. H pceivud Julv 19, 8.45 a.m. WASHINGTON, July 18. Sixteen suffragettes, who demonstrated at; White 11 ous'. were fined 25 dollars, or sixty 'davs in -the workhorses. Tlic majority deoided no! to pay the fines. The suffragettes I include 5 Ir.-> Brannan. daughter of the late Charles I )ana. the noted American journaljist, author and statesman '>-, 1 Captain Hinsch, who..acted as Amentan agttnt for Che freighter U-boat Deutechlpnd, is reporU-t! to have reached Germany, i U |is believed he sailed from America in a schooner, und was picked up by a pubmurine ancf taken to .Germany.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10150, 19 July 1917, Page 5
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180AMERICA'S SHIP EXPERTS QUARREL. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10150, 19 July 1917, Page 5
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